It's Okay To Be Yourself

Chapter 7: Don't Worry About Me

~A few hours later~
Jiro's POV:
I finally woke up, but my head was still fuzzy and when I woke up I was in the hospital.

"Oh good, you're finally awake." A familiar voice said, I looked over to see who it was and it was Denki!

I blushed, "K-kaminari! What are you doing here?!"

He blushed too and looked away, "w-well, you fainted and I brought you here to make sure you were okay..."

I smirked, "couldn't you just call the ambulance?"

He stood there in shock, I giggled, I guess he didn't think of that. "W-well, you don't know, what if the ambulance came to late and you died!" Denki said trying to justify his reasoning.

"I doubt it, they usually send the ambulance that's the closest to the emergency, so I wouldn't have died." I said.

He scoffed, "okay, I wasn't thinking at the time, happy now!"

I laughed, "it's okay, you did you're best and that's all that matters and to be honest, I'm surprised you admitted it. I thought you would try to keep lying until the end."

"No, I knew you would would catch me eventually, so I thought it would be better to just tell the truth." He sighed, "honestly, I'm just glad you're okay.."

He tried smiling, but I could tell he was worried about me and then I noticed he still had his uniform.

'Did he miss school just to make sure I was okay?' I thought to myself, 'No, I shouldn't jump to conclusions, I should just ask'.

"Hey, how come you didn't change you're uniform?" I asked.

"Well.. I didn't have time, to change. You see, after you fainted I brought you to the hospital and stayed here to make sure you were okay. I was so busy looking after you that I didn't think about changing myself." Denki said with a soft smile.

Why.. why did he care so much? He probably had better things to do then take care of me. I tried holding back tears, "Kaminari.. you- you didn't have too..."

He looked at me with contempt, "Jiro.. you have no idea how much I care for you.. I would do anything for you.."

"I doubt it.. we're just friends aren't we.. if we weren't friends you wouldn't have done this for me.."

Denki started getting mad, "Jiro.. you may be my friend, and that may be the reason why I'm doing this, but I swear I would do this for anybody who was in trouble, because that's what heroes do!"

He looked like he was going to say something else, but he didn't. It's like he was holding something back from me, something he didn't want me to know..

What is it? What is the thing he didn't want me to know? Why does he care so much about me? What goes on in his head? What does he think of me?

Suddenly my head started hurting more, "Jiro! Are you okay?!" Denki asked.

"Yeah I'm fine, but I should probably go to sleep.." I said.

"Want me to stay here?" He asked.

"Do you really think I'm staying here?" I said barely holding back my tears, "I wanna go back to my parents, there probably worried sick about me! I can't make them go through that!"

"Hey hey, calm down, don't worry, I'll get you out of here, but are you sure you don't need my help. I mean, what if you faint again!" Denki said.

Why was he wasting all this energy on me? I was going to say I didn't need his help, but I really didn't want to faint again, and maybe staying with him more would help me learn why he cares about me so much.

"Fine, if you really think it's necessary, then you can walk me home, but as soon as you see you're house or get close to you're house you should leave! I don't want my parents thinking I have a boyfriend when it's not true."

"But aren't they gonna wonder who got you there?" He asked.

I groaned, god I should've just said no, but it's too late now.

"Fine, walk me all the way home, but if they ask, you're just my friend!"

He nodded and I asked the doctors if I could leave. "Sure," they said, "but bring your friend with you just in case you faint again."

"Oh okay." I said. Guess there was no escaping it, I had to go with him.